Passenger-car.



H. HOWSON.

PASSENGER CAR. APPLIOATION FILED MAY 18, 190B.

Patented Apr. 27,' 1909.

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H. HOWSON.

PASSENGER CAR. APPLIoATIoN FILED MAY 1a, "1908.

Patented Apr.27, 1909.

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` No. aandeleninto the UNITED srnirns HENRY nowsoN, .on rn'ILADnLPnniy rsNNsYLvANIA,A AssIGNoR 'To rang. G.l

BRILL oonrluvn -ori1 n1LADEL-PHLA., PENNSYLVANIA,l A vCORPORATION or PENNSYLVANIA.

PATENT-formen.,-

PAssENGERcAR.

specification' qf Letters 'ra/tent.

retenee'anprn a?, reeel 'mutans mea )my 1a, 1ere. seen No. 433,366. l

To'iall whe/"i ,ti-mcy concerns;

VBe it v"Qtl'iat I,- IIENRY HowsoN, a citizen of the United States,V residing in Philadelphia, PennsyIvanalave invented certain Improvements yin 'Passenger-Cars, of which the following is a specification; f

Myinvention relates to certain. improve- ,ments in passenger cars of theptype in which passengers 'pay their fares-on entering the car. y

The 'object ofiny invention is to provide means to revelt .the entrance of passengers ody of the car while other pas? sengers ,are leaving the car at the same end i and to close'the exit passagewa when the ingress passageway is open. T is, object I 'att-ainjn the .following manner, reference beingl'had to the', accompanyingdrawing, in Whic Figure 1, is a sectional planview of a pasis a transverse sectional' view on the "line 2-2, Fig. 1,: Flg. 3, lsfa perspective view ofone of the stops; Fig. 4, isa view illustrating i egres'ssectionsfbziand b3 by a guard in thev into the channel in the panel BZ.

t a modification of myinvention'; and Fig. 5

is a transverse sectional view on the line A is "cifre body of the car.

I B is the platform and C the transverse parftition separating the body portion from the platform.-= In the partition is a doorway c of the ordinary width and preferably arranged.

central in respect to the body ofi'the'car,

doosCf these-.doorscan be made in the or- 'dinaryzmanner and so connected as to close and pen simultaneously.

The platform B is.. closedlat the outer end by the ordinary vestibule framin B and at one side of the platform by a pane B2 having a channel therein and a door B3l adapted to close the doorway b and arranged to slide The opposite side' o i the car is open, when the platform vis at"the rear endof` the car, for the free itigress and egress of passengers, but when the platform is at the forward end of the car, this side is preferably closed, either by doors B or any form of'guards.

The platformB is divided into ingress and form of'railsJD is a guard rail mounted on posts d yandfd, in-the presentins-tance,

the post d being .at the edge b of the platform B and'D is another fixedguard rai secure-d at d2 to the panel Byin the presentinstance, and mounted on a` post d3 preferably the same distance from the center' of 4the 'plat-v form as the post d so as 13o-forman in ress 60 passageway from the in ress section 3 of the platform intotllel ody f the' car. Pivoted to the post d, in the present instance, is a movable guard E adapted to swing from theposition shown inafnlllines, 65H Fig. 1, to the position shown in dottedlines in 'said figure, and F is'ano'ther movable; guardpivoted to the post d 4and ada ted to swing from wthe ppsition shownin f l'lines, Fig. 41, to the posltionshown indottd lines.l l0 These two guards are-preferably connected'- together so as to move in unison sol lthat when they are in the position shown in Fig. `1

the ,ingress passagewa between the two posts'd and da' is close 'and the egressI upas-` f7.5

sageway b4 is open `to allow passengers to `leave the body of the car.

` `When the parts are in the positionshown by dotted lines the' exit passageway' b3 is closed by -the guard Fat -.the edge of theplatform and the ingress passagewayk is open' so as to allow passengers to freel enter the body of the carvfrom the plat orm. The

s ace X between the rail D and'tliej partit1on C is reserved for theconductor when tlre`f8i5v movable guard is in the position sho'wnbyx dotted lines s o that he'v can collect the 'fares 4as the passengers enter the-foar. -Wlwxen the i movable uard in' the osition shown inf full lines t Ae conductor is ree to move from one `side of the platform to the other and. have unobstructed view Aof thel interior' of the car. In the present instance I connect' the two guards E and F to vertical shafts c and j'respectively; these shafts pass through 95 'the posts d3 and d respectively and .through the floor of the platform and on the shaft e is anarm eand en the shaft f is an arm f and these two arms are connected by a rod e2` so that when the guard E'isrrn'ved bythe` 100 conductonthel guard F will moveewith' it. l Sockets or' stopsJ-cl an'dfz. canbe arranged and so foi-medias y"tof receive the, ends of the guards when they are in either position and these sockets can be made with spring re- 105,0

tainin members as shown at e, Fig, shoul itv'be desirable to retaintlreguard 1n eitherfposition. Other' means for connecting the guards so that they will work together may be resorted to without departing from my invention. -V

In Fig.4, I have shown amodification of the arrangement of the guards. In this figure the guard F for vthe exit passage is mounted on the'post d and rests against a socket f3' at one'side4 of thedoorway; the other guard E is made similar to the guard illustrated in Fig. 1 andl rests against the socket e3 on the opposite side-of the doorway when the ingress passage is open as in Fig. 4. These two guards are connected so `that when the guard E is moved to the position shown in dottedlinesr Fig. 4, the guard F is moved to such `a position as to leave the egress opening free forthe exit of passengers.

While I have shown in the` drawing guardsl made inthe f orm of. rails, it will be understood that the guards may" be made in any form to separate 'the ingress lsection of the platform 'from the egress section and to allow the conductor to collec-t the fares Vas 'the passengers enter the car.

Thus it will' be seen that by either of the constructions above set forth', the ingress of passengers to the bodyl of the `car can be preventedl while passengers Aare leaving the car by the egress'passageway and as soon as the ingress passageway is open the egress passageway isv closed so as to prevent'anyycar .from the latter one passing `into the passageway I claim: y 4 1. The combination'n a passenger car, of a body'"p'ortion, v'a platform, a transverse guard -extending across the platform, and

s ing.

verse guard'extendingacross the platforn'i` and separating said platform into ingress and egress sections, one section of said guard separa ingv the ingress and egress portions"- there a section of the guardbeing moyable' vso as to open 'or close the passage leading from the ingress section of the platform to the body of the car.`

-2. The combination ina' passenger car,- of

a body` portion, a platform, a 'transverse partition separating the body portion from .the platform, a doorway inthe partition,va uard extending across the platform and y aving an opening therein for passengers to enter the car from the .ingress section, with a movable guard adapted to close said open- 3. The combination in a passenger car, of abody portion a platform, a'tran'sverse par'- tition separating the bodyportion from they platform, `a door in said partition, a transe beinfr .movable andadapted to swing toward vthe doorway,lwith va guard pivoted to said `.post .and the other said guards being arranged 'to\swing toward either seo-,062

transverse guard and adapted 'to swing toward the 'partition and. b ock theegress passageway.

4. 'Ihe combination in a passenger car, of av'body portion, a platform, atransverse artition separating the platform from the body portion andv having a doorway therein, a guard rail extending across the platform some distance from the said partition, a central opening. in the guard rail through which passengers enterthe ear from the ingress section of the platform,-,a pivoted guard mounted to close-'said opening and to swingtoward the partition' so as to close the egress` section ofthe platform, and' means connecting the two movable guards so that they will work in unison.

5. The combination in a passenger car, of

abody ortion, a platform, "a partition separating t e latform from the body portion of the car, a oorway in the partition, a guard rail-.extendmg across-the p atform and some distance from the partition, posts supporting the guard rail, ltwo l ung to the other post,

the partition, lone guar being arranged to close the .passagewajT between the ingress gluards, one hung toone` portion of the platformand the body of the car and the other 4arrangedto close the egress portion of the platform, means connecting the two so that they-will workin unison, and

stops to limit the movement ofthe guards in osit'ion.

' 6. T e combination in a passenger car, of

a. body.. portion, a platform, a' transverse -partitiontfdividing the platform from the ody portion", a central doorway in the partition a transverse guard rail made in 'two sect1Qns,"posts suppo'rtingth'e gu ard ra1l sec-A tions, said'sections being spaced apart vto .l

fqrni `a.pa'ssagei`vay in line with the door, a movable guard pivoted to one of the andadapted to swin toward the partition,

sa/:id pivoted guard c osing the passageway from the ingressportion of the platform to the body/"of thehcar, a guard )ivotedto the postatthe side ofgthe'car an arranged to swing toward the latform and close. the exitpassage at one si ve of-'the lc ar, thespace be,

tween the guard railand the partition at the opposite side of the car being of such'a size. as' to accomniodatetheconducton In testimony whereof, I have. signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

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